I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what I’m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work I’ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I don’t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math.… - Nancy Spero
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math.…
- Nancy Spero
An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent. - Nancy Spero
An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on… - Nancy Spero
I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on…
When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum - a band - all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in … - Nancy Spero
When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum - a band - all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in …
I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to j… - Nancy Spero
I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to j…
I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicl… - Nancy Spero
I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicl…
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